MAC locking and filtering in FreeBSD

[Stefan Lambrev]

Hi Brett,

I think what you are looking for is called captive portal.
You can look at pfsense - http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Category:Captive_Portal 
  which comes with such solution into it.

On May 14, 2009, at 1:29 AM, Brett Glass wrote:

> At 03:38 PM 5/13/2009, Christian Brueffer wrote:
>
>> Sounds like wlan_acl(4) may be of interest to you.
>
> Unfortunately, wlan_acl(4) is only useful if one wants to ban users  
> from the network, which these venues will rarely want to do except  
> to block an abuser.
>
> Rather, they'll want the equipment to recognize MAC addresses and  
> grant different degrees of access to them. For example, a user might  
> be trapped in a "walled garden" until agreeing to an acceptable use  
> policy, and then redirected -- but only once -- to a specific Web  
> page, such as the hotel chain's reservation page.
>
> --Brett Glass
>

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Best Wishes,
Stefan Lambrev
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